masculinity

Two new films at the Quad offer riffs on notions of Jewish masculinity.

04/09/2013 - 20:00

George Robinson

Special To The Jewish Week

Two new films opening this weekend at the Quad Cinema offer riffs on classic clichés of 20th-century Jewish-American masculinity: the radical firebrand and the nebbish. Unsurprisingly, it’s the rabble-rouser who merits our attention, but the nebbish is given a sufficiently unusual to be interesting too.